The report on these purchases came out on July 12, but it was the second quarter report covering March through June. The contracts had all expired by the end of the quarter (June 30), so they were not valid on the day of the attempted assassination.
That isn’t what I read.
Also does not figure logically. If the story was ancient news, those wankers would not be scrambling, coping, and making up BS stories about evil elves adding four zeroes to the number of shares.